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Diki Tsering ( བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཚེ་རིང་; c. 1901 – 12 January 1981) [1] was a 20th-century Tibetan woman, known as the mother of three reincarnated Rinpoches/Lamas: Lhamo Thondup, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th reincarnated Dalai Lama; Thubten Jigme Norbu, the 6th reincarnated Taktser Rinpoche; and Tendzin Choegyal, the ...
Diki Tsering (1901 – 12 January 1981) was a Tibetan woman notably known as the mother of Tenzin Gyatso (the 14th Dalai Lama). Tibetans across the world call her ‘Gyalyum Chenmo’ or ‘the great mother’ with affection. [1]
Diki Tsering died in 1981, but not before sitting down to a series of taped interviews with her granddaughter Yangzom Doma in which the matriarch shared her memories and impressions of having been the mother of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
May 10, 2017 · Diki Tsering is affectionately called Gyalyum Chenmo, meaning “the great mother,” by Tibetans across the world. She is remembered for being mother to the 14 th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
The Dalai Lama’s mother was named Diki Tsering (1900-1981). She was the mother of sixteen children, though only seven of them survived. She was born in 1901, the daughter of peasants.
Told in the first-person and accompanied by photographs from family archives, this autobiography follows Diki Tsering, a poor girl born in 1901, the Year of the Ox, to a peasant...
May 1, 2000 · The memoirs of the ordinary Tibetan housewife who became the Dalai Lama's mom. Diki Tsering was illiterate, but her niece tape-recorded interviews with her before her death in 1980 and those interviews became this book. I most enjoyed the first half, where Tsering talks about her childhood and early adulthood in Tibet before the Chinese invasion.
